Questo autore esplora complesse questioni etiche e commenti sociali attraverso le sue opere. Le sue narrazioni spesso presentano mondi distopici, esaminando i limiti della natura umana di fronte alle avversità. Attraverso uno stile distintivo e temi ponderati, spinge i lettori a considerare le implicazioni del progresso umano e il nostro futuro collettivo.
"A Voyage for Madmen" is a gripping oceanic adventure chronicling the 1968 race where nine sailors attempted to circumnavigate the globe nonstop. Only one would succeed, while others faced madness, failure, and death. This meticulously researched tale explores human endurance against the sea's brutal challenges.
New York Times best-selling author Peter Nichols chronicles his and his wife's voyage aboard a wooden sailboat from the Caribbean to England - where his marriage foundered - and his trip back alone, which also became a journey of self-discovery.
Includes, among others, the plays, "The Freeway", "Privates on Parade" and "Passion Play". Each play is introduced by the author with extracts from his diary. This edition is being published alongside "Nichols Plays: One".
This is the story of the man without whom the name Charles Darwin might be unknown to us today. That man was Captain Robert FitzRoy, who invited the 22-year-old Darwin to be his companion on board the Beagle . This is the remarkable story of how a misguided decision by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle , precipitated his employment of a young naturalist named Charles Darwin, and how the clash between FitzRoy’s fundamentalist views and Darwin’s discoveries led to FitzRoy’s descent into the abyss. One of the great ironies of history is that the famous journey—wherein Charles Darwin consolidated the earth-rattling ‘origin of the species’ discoveries—was conceived by another man: Robert FitzRoy. It was FitzRoy who chose Darwin for the journey—not because of Darwin’s scientific expertise, but because he seemed a suitable companion to help FitzRoy fight back the mental illness that had plagued his family for generations. Darwin did not give FitzRoy solace; indeed, the clash between the two men’s opposing views, together with the ramifications of Darwin’s revelations, provided FitzRoy with the final unendurable torment that forced him to end his own life.
'This remarkable play is about a nightmare all women must have dreamed at some time, and most men...'Ronald Bryden, Observer (1967)'Joe Egg is unlike any play I've seen; concerns about whether it's dated fade next to the claims that can now be made for it. It's in the collisions between pious and rogue thoughts that the play's energy lies. We don't know what to feel. Which is why, once seen, Joe Egg won't go away.'Robert Butler, Independent on Sunday (1993)
A tale set around a popular Mediterranean seaside resort follows the story of two honeymooners who abruptly split in 1948 and live separately for decades until children from their rivaling families fall in love.
Der Mann, das Boot und das Meer - Peter Nichols setzt zum letzten Mal die Segel, um allein den Atlantik zu überqueren. 'Toad', eine alte, motorlose Segelyacht aus Holz, liebevoll restauriert, soll im amerikanischen Maine verkauft werden. Sie war für siebe
